How do I work out a twist on this plot?:

I have characters and a concept, but no plot.
Concept: Urban fantasy, homage to Tolkien. After a war in Middeleard/Verold (Middle-earth), a Norse and Saxon-inspired fantasy world with similarities to the location of the same name in Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, (in fact, the main characters believe that Tolkien visited their world in his dreams and used parts of their history as inspiration for his stories), refugees flee to our world and establish a hidden neighbourhood called the Westmarch in my home city. The story focuses on a halfling teenager, Frodo, and his brother who are raised by the Dwarf mercenary Thorin Eikinskjaldi (Oakenshield) in a house built underground in this neighbourhood.

Some Characters: A pair of teenaged hobbits, an honourable and tradition-bound dwarven mercenary (the above Thorin), a manipulative elven queen, and an orc leader who wants to be thought of as more than just an evil guy and also wants to be appreciated and have friends. He's an Anti-Villain. How do I make a plot from this?

The villain I'm talking about is a minor villain. The heroes want to save a ring from destruction (thanks, james123182!). It isn't just the dwarves, elves, halflings etc but everyone from that world who's arrived in ours. They can't fit in because:

they speak radically different languages

They have an old-fashioned culture of honour, chivalry, sacred hospitality etc

Their general viewpoint is radically different to the 21st century

Villains attempt to destroy fragments of an old ring that is actually a talisman.

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